A novel strategy of copper (I)-catalyzed cascade intramolecular nucleophilic attack on N- sulfonylketenimine followed by rearrangement of sulfonimidates to sulfonamides resulting in a library of substituted 8, 9-dihydro-5 H-imidazo [1, 2-a][1, 4] diazepin-7 (6 H)-ones has been developed.